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Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge

Newport County, Rhode Island

Photos 

Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge

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Photo taken by Wikimedia Commons user Antony-22 in September 2015

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #469388

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Street Views 

Not be confused with New York or Maryland 

This bridge should not be confused with the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City, nor should it be confused with the Verrazano Bridge in Maryland. All 3 of these bridges are named for the same Italian explorer.

For the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, please see http://bridgehunter.com/ny/richmond/verrazano-narrows/

For the Verrazano Bridge in Maryland, please see http://bridgehunter.com/md/worcester/verrazano/

Facts 

Overview
Concrete segmental box girder bridge over West Passage Narragansett Bay on RI 138
Location
Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1992; rehabilitated 2009
Design
Concrete segmental box girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 636.2 ft.
Total length: 7,353.4 ft. (1.4 mi.)
Deck width: 64.0 ft.
Also called
West Passage Narragansett Bay Bridge
Jamestown-North Kingstown Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.52833, -71.40276   (decimal degrees)
41°31'42" N, 71°24'10" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/299539/4600196 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Wickford
Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
33,533
Inventory numbers
RI 8000 (Rhode Island bridge number)
BH 70252 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of May 2017)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 83.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Box girder (17)
Built 1992 (64)
Built during 1990s (726)
Concrete (87)
Concrete girder (1,004)
County line crossing (533)
Deck girder (5,753)
Girder (10,247)
Have street view (26,956)
Jamestown, Rhode Island (1)
 Modern (2,438)
Newport County, Rhode Island (16)
Open (39,897)
Over a mile long (301)
Owned by bridge authority (251)
RI 138 (5)
Rhode Island (193)
Segmental box girder (13)
Span length 500-1000 feet (388)
Total length over 2500 feet (916)

Update Log 

  • April 2, 2020: New photos from Nick Boppel
  • February 19, 2018: Essay added by Amanda
  • December 31, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • December 15, 2015: Added by Andy Peters

Sources 

  • Andy Peters - anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Dana and Kay Klein
  • Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
Posted December 15, 2015, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Hi Andy:

Have you explored the "Other Locations" menu? If there is a glitch that does not allow you to add the other county, you might consider sending a message to the webmaster.

Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
Posted December 15, 2015, by Andy Peters (anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com)

connects Newport County, R.I., with Washington County, R.I., but this site won't let you indicate that